Goodnight Irene

[Ardiles]

In honour of Bristol Rovers Football Club.  Not quite RIP, but as good as.  A part of me is actually quite sad.

Wonder if they're going to push ahead with that state-of-the-art 20,000 capacity stadium?

Please add your messages of condolence below.

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Irene goodnight, Irene goodnight
Goodnight Irene, goodnight Irene
I'll see you in my dreams

Sometimes I live in the country
Sometimes I live in town
Sometimes I have a great notion
To jump into the river and drown

Irene goodnight, Irene goodnight
Goodnight Irene, goodnight Irene
I'll see you in my dreams

Quit ramblin' and quit gamblin'
Quit stayin' out late at night
Stay home with your wife and family
Sit down by the fireside bright

Irene goodnight, Irene goodnight
Goodnight Irene, goodnight Irene
I'll see you in my dreams

I asked your mother for you
She told me you was too young
I wished to God I'd never seen your face
I's sorry you ever was born

Irene goodnight, Irene goodnight
Goodnight Irene, goodnight Irene
I'll see you in my dreams

I love Irene, God knows I do
I'll love her till the seas run dry
And if Irene turns her back on me
I'd take morphine and die

Irene goodnight, Irene goodnight
Goodnight Irene, goodnight Irene
I'll see you in my dreams

You cause me to weep, you cause me to mourn
You cause me to leave my home
But the very last words I heard her say
Was "Please sing me one more song"

Irene goodnight, Irene goodnight
Goodnight Irene, goodnight Irene
I'll see you in my dreams

[Batch]

They might need to reduce the capacity a bit. 2000 should do it.

I'm disappointed...not to have seen a picture of a fully grown Rovers fan balling his eyes out.

[Bob's Orange]

I was chatting to a Rovers fan on the train to Swindon and he was telling me about their new stadium. I was shocked when he said it was 25k capacity!

[Arriba]

Irene's in for a beating tonight.

[ronnie21]

there was a good old sing song in the CG hotel after the game - only heard one song though!!  Instead of "I'll see you in my dreams" they substituted Salisbury for dreams!!

[suttonred]

got no feelings either way for rovers, still funny as fuck though.

[Ardiles]

I know it's not very grown up to dance on someone's grave...especially when there are a lot of decent Rovers fans out there.  But to the pack of feral chavs - mostly armed with baseball bats - that invaded the beer garden we were drinking in at the Inn on the Green in Bristol before our game there at the end of the 2006/07 promotion season...how are you feeling now?

Most probably all now crying in to your super strength cider.  That was the most barbaric act of violence I've witnessed in nearly 25 years of watching football.  I'll never forget it.  This is for you.

[kerry red]

Helluva of a Rovers derby next season

Bristol v Forest Green

Serves the tossers right

[woolster]

att 10000 with shitty fans in the away end

[sonicyouth]

I hate that Rovers adopted that song.

[Ardiles]

I hate that Rovers adopted that song.

Do they have to give it back now?

[sonicyouth]

Leadbelly is rolling in his grave.


With laughter.

[Summerof69]

I know it's not very grown up to dance on someone's grave...especially when there are a lot of decent Rovers fans out there.  But to the pack of feral chavs - mostly armed with baseball bats - that invaded the beer garden we were drinking in at the Inn on the Green in Bristol before our game there at the end of the 2006/07 promotion season...how are you feeling now?

Most probably all now crying in to your super strength cider.  That was the most barbaric act of violence I've witnessed in nearly 25 years of watching football.  I'll never forget it.  This is for you.

This.

And all the chavvy tossers who threw seats a season or so later in the Arkells.

Hope they're choking on their cheap cider tonight, and enjoy's their local derby to Forest Green next season.

[Costanza]

A happy day in my world.

[ghanimah]

I know it's not very grown up to dance on someone's grave...especially when there are a lot of decent Rovers fans out there.  But to the pack of feral chavs - mostly armed with baseball bats - that invaded the beer garden we were drinking in at the Inn on the Green in Bristol before our game there at the end of the 2006/07 promotion season...how are you feeling now?

Most probably all now crying in to your super strength cider.  That was the most barbaric act of violence I've witnessed in nearly 25 years of watching football.  I'll never forget it.  This is for you.

Yes... On a personal note I've never seen either of the Bristol clubs as rivals, but for the Inn on the Green incident there's much schadenfreude to be had...